Top 1200 Plain English Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I'd like the kind of love that lasts forever.It doesn't matter if it's plain,it doesn't matter if it's ugly.It just has to be there.

I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a good reader, I'm a good reader in many languages, especially in English, since poetry came to me through the English language, initially through my father's love of Swinburn, of Tennyson, and also of Keats, Shelley and so on - not through my native tongue, not through Spanish. It came to me as a kind of spell. I didn't understand it, but I felt it.

It is plain old-fashioned wrong when people lie and trick other people.

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans.

I would describe myself as a very plain but very honest person.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.

Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

England is so black and white, so plain, like a burger with nothing on it. No salad, nothing. That's why it's so real.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Music can help uncover that tone that's in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it's very plain to see, sometimes it's not.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words 'human rights' spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word 'China.'

I was quite a plain boy. I stayed in work and eeked out a living, bit parts on TV, walk-ons in films, repertory companies.

The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005.

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.

These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.

You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

Ram Dass, Krishna Dass, we all spoke through interpreters. There were good interpreters there, educated people in India speak English but Maharaji was the One, the Baba, Holy Man, mendicant, he didn't speak English. We talked to him and it was hard to know him, he was an ancient holy man and I was a 21 year old seeker. So I never knew what was going on, I mean I don't really know what's going on now, my guess work is a little better perhaps.

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

You don't have to wear a sparkly dress all the time! You can wear something that's plain, really, it's okay. No one is going to be mad at you.

My mother thought my inclinations would do well in Law, but I was too shy and deliberative - slowfooted - for that, so I determined to be an English and German high school teacher. In my first year of university I had one subject to "fill in" and chose philosophy against the advice of my counselor. My university teachers in English and German were totally uninspiring; philosophy was wonderful and my results showed it. I chose it and basically backed into a situation in which only a philosophy career seemed a viable option. I've never regretted it, but there was a lot of serendipity.

I'm going to have wedge when guys are going have a 6-iron, plain and simple.

Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?

The plain Canadian fact is that relative to other Western democracies, the U.S. in particular, there isn't much difference between our two main political parties.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.

Not only am I better looking.. I'm just plain better.

There are certain concepts, which exist in English, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than any European system of tenses, which means a different sense of reality, which means a different concept of time. So, things can be translated, but they become different.

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.